Summertime...

My brother wrote the lyrics to the song "Summertime", from the musical "Corgy & Bess" in his Blog. He beat me to it, so I won't write the lyrics myself. That's a song that comes to my mind every year, on the first day of Summer. Both my brother and I learned that song in Elementary School, in Miss Wilkinson's music class.

But there's another thing that signifies the beginning of Summer to me, and that's the buzz of the Cicada. Whenever I hear that sound each Summer, it brings back memories of my childhood; of hearing the buzz on those hot Summer days, those days before we were old enough for a Summer job.

That sound occurred this past Monday June 25th this year. I was sitting in the backyard of my girlfriends house, having just finished dinner. The evening was beautiful, and the sound came first from one tree, then was returned with a buzz from another tree, as if the Cicadas were greeting each other for the first time.

Summertime, and the living is definitely easy...

DB